Constituency
238. Jaipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-JAIPUR
INC 48.0%won by 7.6%FBL 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.1% to 7.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 66.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
58,535
Margin
4,453
7.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SANTI RAM MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC28,08148.0%
- 2HARI PADA MAHATOFBL · FBL23,62840.4%
- 3SURGHA NARAYAN MAHATOIndependent · IND5,4989.4%
- 4AMAR KUMAR CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND8321.4%
- 5HARU MAHATOIndependent · IND4960.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −11.1%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 48.0%
- FBL share
- 17.2% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —